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Rachael Bermingham

Rachael has written 7 bestselling books (6 self-published and 1 published) since 2006.


Amy Ephron

Her national bestseller, A Cup of Tea, spent 37 weeks on the LA Times bestsellers list and has been bought by film producer Jerry Bruckheimer.

Ben Goto

Against a backdrop of anxiety following the 1973 oil crisis, the work became a runaway bestseller and sparked a 'Nostradamus boom' in Japanese publishing.

Carl Szokoll

Among his work is the script for the film Der Bockerer, the production of Die letzte Brücke (the film that made Maria Schell famous), and his own autobiography that became a bestseller.

Daniel J Palmer

He is the son of the New York Times bestseller novelist, Michael Palmer.

Debby Applegate

As of 2011, Applegate is working on a biography of Polly Adler, New York City's notorious Prohibition-era brothel-keeper whose 1953 memoir A House is Not a Home became a New York Times Bestseller and a 1963 film starring Shelley Winters.

Dudley Leavitt

While he is cited in Jon Krakauer's bestseller, Under the Banner of Heaven as a participant in the Mountain Meadows massacre of 1857, Leavitt is said to have never discussed the massacre, except to have remarked later in life, "I thank God that these old hands have never been stained by human blood."

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Despite Prozac Nations phenomenal success as an international bestseller, Wurtzel was nonetheless taken to court by her publisher Penguin in September of 2012 in an effort for the publisher to reclaim a $100,000 advance for a 2003 book contract for, "a book for teenagers to help them cope with depression" which Wurtzel failed to complete.

Eric James

He was Chaplain of Trinity College, Cambridge from 1955-9, and thereby became associated with some of the best known clerics of his generation: Mervyn Stockwood, John Robinson (author of the bestseller Honest to God), Robert Runcie and Trevor Huddleston.

Evan S. Connell

Connell's 1984 biography of Custer, Son of the Morning Star, earned critical acclaim, was a bestseller, and was adapted as a television film/miniseries in 1991.

Fu Lei

His family letters to his son Fou Ts'ong, a world-renowned pianist, were published posthumously and have become a bestseller in China to this day.

Gerda Wegener

The Danish Girl, David Ebershoff's 2001 novel about Einar/Lili and Gerda was an international bestseller and was translated into a dozen languages.

Gwen Bristow

Bristow reached the pinnacle of her career with the western romance Jubilee Trail, which became a bestseller in 1950, and was adapted to a moderately successful film in 1954.

Harry Bliss

His first book for children, A Fine, Fine School by Sharon Creech was a New York Times bestseller, as was Diary of a Worm, Diary of a Spider and Diary of a Fly all by Doreen Cronin.

Harry Frankfurt

His 1986 paper On Bullshit, a philosophical investigation of the concept of "bullshit", was republished as a book in 2005 and became a surprise bestseller, leading to media appearances such as Jon Stewart's The Daily Show.

Henry H. Bauer

In his book, Beyond Velikovsky: The History of a Public Controversy, Henry Bauer criticizes the research of Immanuel Velikovsky, author of the pseudoscientific and pseudohistoric New York Times bestseller Worlds in Collision (1950).

Hwang Jini

Novelizations of her life include a 2002 treatment by North Korean writer Hong Sok-jung (which became the first North Korean novel to win a literary award, the Manhae Prize, in the South) and a 2004 bestseller by South Korean writer Jeon Gyeong-rin.

Jeff Gunther

As an early adopter of ROWE, his approach to employee engagement was covered in Daniel Pink's latest book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller.

Jeffery Deaver

His novels have appeared on bestseller lists around the world, including The New York Times, The Times, Italy's Corriere della Sera, The Sydney Morning Herald, and The Los Angeles Times.

Jerry I. Porras

He is also a business and management analyst who co-authored Success Built to Last: Creating A Life That Matters, and, with James C. Collins, the bestseller Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies.

Juan Gómez-Jurado

Gómez-Jurado worked in many the most important Spanish media, like 40 Principales, Cadena Ser, Cadena Cope, Radio España, Canal + and ABC, before hitting the bestseller lists throughout the world with God's Spy (Espía de Dios), his first novel.

La Pyramide Inversée

The Inverted Pyramid figures prominently on the concluding pages of Dan Brown's international bestseller The Da Vinci Code.

Law of Social Cycle

idem, The Great Depression of 1990, Simon and Schuster, New York, NY, USA, 1986 (#1 NY Times bestseller)

Leonardo's Swans

Leonardo’s Swans is an international bestseller by Karen Essex, published by Doubleday in 2006.

Manoli Olympitis

Called a 'Bestseller for intelligent readers' by Norman Mailer (who also wrote the foreword), Manoli dedicated the novel to Kathryn Skoyles, who ran the London mystery bookshop 'Crime in Store'.

Marti Leimbach

Her first novel, Dying Young (1990), was an international bestseller and the basis of the film, Dying Young, starring Julia Roberts, Campbell Scott and Vincent D'Onofrio.

Mary S. Lovell

Her book on Markham, Straight on Till Morning, researched and written in under a year, after weeks of interviews with the subject in Nairobi, became an immediate international bestseller when it was published in 1987 and was twelve weeks on the New York Times Best Seller lists.

Melanie Martinez

Books that featured Martinez's controversy are NY Times Bestseller The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot by Naomi Wolf, Why We're Liberals A Political Handbook for Post-Bush America by Eric Alterman, Real World Media Ethics: Inside The Broadcast and Entertainment Industries by Philippe Perebinossoff.

Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas

Flight of the Hummingbird, first published in North America and now available in five languages, is also a bestseller and includes essays contributed by the Dalai Lama and Nobel Peace prize winner Wangari Maathai.

Mikey Robins

Robins is also a published author, having co-written two books, Three Beers and a Chinese Meal (with Helen Razer), a bestseller, and Big Man's World (with Tony Squires and Steve Abbott).

Military Writer's Society of America

The experience level and relative success of the membership varies widely, from relatively obscure writers to best-selling authors like Joe Buff, Gayle Lynds, and David E. Meadows.

Murrah High School

Kathryn Stockett - author of the New York Times Bestseller, "The Help"

N. S. Madhavan

Their daughter, Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan is a well-known blogger and the author of 2 English novels, You Are Here, Confessions of a Listmaniac and the bestseller Cold Feet.

Nathan Jendrick

In 2011, Jendrick released Gym-Free and Ripped through Alpha Books which became an Amazon.com category Bestseller.

Proposed Book of Mormon geographical setting

Strongly influenced by John Lloyd Stephens’ 1841 bestseller, Incident of Travel in Central America, Parley Pratt set various Book of Mormon lands (including, apparently, the narrow neck) farther north and west of Panama.

Sarah MacLean

The book debuted on the USA Today Bestseller List and the New York Times Bestseller List, where it stayed for four weeks, and was the first recipient of the Romantic Times Magazine Seal of Excellence.

Stephen Windwalker

His 2008 book on the Amazon Kindle, The Complete User's Guide to the Amazing Amazon Kindle, sold over 55,000 copies and appeared continuously in Amazon's Kindle bestseller list throughout most of 2008.

Tana French

Her follow-up novel The Likeness (2008), presenting a story about her lead character Cassie, has also been a bestseller in both versions.

Tara Duncan

Tara Duncan is the heroine of a series of bestselling novels in French written by Sophie Audouin-Mamikonian.

The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma

The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma (Polish title: Kariera Nikodema Dyzmy) is a 1932 Polish bestselling novel by Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz.

The Millionaire Mind

The book debuted at #2 on the New York Time's Bestseller list on February 18, 2000 and received press and reviews from Fred Barnes, Katie Couric and Donald Trump.

Tom Lanoye

He has also written a bestseller called Het derde huwelijk (The Third Marriage), as well as plays that have on more than one occasion been staged abroad, including Fort Europa, Mamma Medea (a free adaptation of Euripides), Mefisto for ever (a free adaptation of Klaus Mann) and Atropa. De wraak van de vrede (Atropa. The Vengeance of Peace) (a free adaptation of Euripides, Aischylos, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld and Curzio Malaparte).

Whitney Crothers Dilley

Dilley's Ang Lee book was listed as a bestseller on Amazon.com within a month of its publication, demonstrating growing scholarly interest in the films of Ang Lee, whose films Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Brokeback Mountain both became cultural milestones in the American media.

William Le Queux

His best-known works are the anti-French and anti-Russian invasion fantasy The Great War in England in 1897 (1894) and the anti-German invasion fantasy The Invasion of 1910 (1906), the latter of which was a phenomenal bestseller.

Wolfgang Hohlbein

They won and their book, Märchenmond (English title: "Magic Moon"), was published by Ueberreuter Publishing, soon becoming a bestseller and winning several awards.

Zoltan Istvan

He is best known for his controversial novel, The Transhumanist Wager, a #1 bestseller in both Philosophy and Science Fiction Visionary and Metaphysical on Amazon.

Zündels Abgang

Zündels Abgang (Zündel’s Departure) is the first novel of Swiss writer Markus Werner (1944 in Eschlikon), that was published in 1984 and became a bestseller and enjoys the status of cult novel for a lot of readers.


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